Thelisha Eaddy
Thelisha Eaddy is the local Morning Edition host for SC Public Radio. Eaddy joined SC Public Radio’s team of reporters in 2015 to cover the long-term recovery of the historic flood in Columbia. Since that time, she has continued covering top news stories for the network. In addition to her on-air reporting, Eaddy can be seen on other South Carolina ETV programming, reporting live coverage of elections and providing analysis during Governor Inaugurations, moderating debates, and hosting the program Palmetto Perspectives. In 2019, Eaddy also produced The Road We Trod, a one-hour special on South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their impact on history and the economy.
A native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Eaddy’s first broadcast job was in her hometown of Saint Stephen. She studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and learned valuable behind-the-scenes radio and TV broadcasting skills at Trident Technical College in Charleston.
Eaddy is an award-winning, multimedia journalist, receiving the 2009 South Carolina Broadcasters Association Radio Reporter of the Year award and several Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards for her reporting.
Eaddy hosts Morning Edition locally for SC Public Radio and can be heard each Monday through Friday from 6 - 9 a.m. Eaddy’s morning news can also be heard on the SC Public Radio website, Facebook and X page.
Stories
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75 Years Later, the Public Gets Access to Rare Images from Iwo Jima
February 20, 2020Carrying the wounded to a make-shift hospital, taking communion, and traveling by sea are just some of the images revealed in never-before-seen films taken during the battle of Iwo Jima. The start of this World War II battle began 75 years ago this week and lasted just over... -
In Orangeburg, a Museum Spotlights People, Events Crucial to the Civil Rights Movement
February 06, 2020A new museum in Orangeburg county celebrates South Carolina residents who fought racial injustice. The Cecil Williams Civil Rights Museum features over 500 photographs, most of which were taken by Williams. After years of trying to get local support for a civil rights museum... -
"I've Never Been Beaten Like That Before, In My Life": Former POW Leads Columbia Veterans Day Parade
November 08, 201750 years ago, Columbia resident Jack Van Loan was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Recently, Van Loan spoke with South Carolina Public Radio about the six years he spent in captivity. Today, the retired Col. of the U.S. Air Force is preparing to serve once again, this... -
Fort Jackson Remembers Trainees As Brave Aspiring Soldiers
October 17, 2017This past September, Timothy Joseph Ashcraft of Cincinnati, Ohio and Ethan McKay Shrader of Prospect, Tennessee enlisted in the United States Army. The two were members of the 2nd Battalion 13th Infantry Regiment and were in their 8th week of training when they were killed... -
SC Public Radio Report | Nichols Resident Shares Evacuation Experience.
October 26, 2016Many South Carolinians may not have heard of the town of Nichols prior to Gov. Nikki Haley's October 10th press conference. The small town is in Marion County and has a population of about 400. Those watching that update, learned that more than half of the town's residents...